US prisons currently house the world's largest inmate population, according to a Wednesday New York Times report citing data provided by the International Center for Prison Studies . The US currently holds 2.3 million inmates, far more than second-in-line China , which holds only 1.6 million inmates even though its population is four times that [...]
Former US Justice Department official Robert Coughlin II pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of criminal conflict of interest in connection to his relationship with disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff . Coughlin, charged on Monday, served as the deputy chief of staff of the DOJ's Criminal Division before resigning last year. He has admitting to [...]
Flavio Sosa, a leader of the 2006 popular uprising in the Mexican state of Oaxaca , was released from jail this weekend after prosecutors failed to convict him of any charges related to the uprising. Sosa, a prominent figure in the People's Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) , had allegedly led a five-month protest demanding the [...]
Daniel M. Smith : " I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation. James Madison, 1788 October 23, 2001. For sixteen days, U.S. warplanes had been dropping the very latest GPS-guided iron bombs [...]
Federal authorities have arrested and charged 84-year-old American citizen Ben-Ami Kadish on four counts of conspiracy to disclose US defense and nuclear weaponry documents to Israel and to act as an Israeli agent, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday. The complaint filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New [...]
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Tuesday partially overturned the convictions of former Bosnian Muslim General Enver Hadzihasanovic and former Brigadier Amir Kubura, reducing sentences issued for failure to check or punish war atrocities committed against Bosnian Croat and Serb civilians by troops under their command during the [...]
Thomas C., and Pamela McIntosh, v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, et al., US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, April 21, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Benzman, et al. v. Whitman, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, April 22, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Giles v. California , 07-6053, where the Court considered whether a criminal defendant can block the testimony of the person he allegedly killed if he did not kill her with the specific intent of preventing the witness from testifying. Dwayne Giles was convicted of first-degree murder [...]
US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Tuesday unveiled new proposed regulations to implement the federal No Child Left Behind Act . At a meeting of the Detroit Economic Club, Spelling said : Today, more than 50 years after Brown v. the Board of Education, 40 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, and [...]
